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PAX 2007 In A Nutshell
2010-02-21 00:00:00
Read on, and All Hail Ball. The Early Weekend

If you missed my discussion of Friday's events, it's understandable; it went up this past Saturday. Suffice it to say that Wil Wheaton's keynote speech was the highlight of the evening. His praise of social gaming, and the relationship-building power of the PAX-goer's favorite pastime resonated incredibly well with the packed theatre. The after-action report on his blog says it all: "My keynote went perfectly, and the audience (and the gaming press online) responded to it in ways I never dreamed possible. I didn't think there would be slightly more than 5000 people in the room when I spoke ..."

The first Penny Arcade Panel featured a lot of middlin' questions, highlighted by the incredible singing power of Jerry Holkins. A description of his performance is in my weekend update, but the real surprise didn't come until after the questions were done. The end of the panel turned ugly when the PA gents left the stage for Uwe Boll to have a chance at the mike. Gabe said later that weekend that he was surprised by the crowd reaction. "You can tell when a crowd is angry, and this was the first time I've felt that at at PAX." The unapologetic Boll was screamed at fairly mercilessly by the attendees.

Other events from the early weekend included a discussion of modern storytelling in videogames. Luminaries Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island), Dave Grossman (Sam and Max) and Nate Fox (Sly Cooper) came together to jaw on a topic near to their hearts. The group discussed linear stories vs. sandbox-style gameplay, user-created content, kids games, and the importance of theme even if your core story isn't all that great: "Grossman [said], 'Well, story isn't just about dialogue and narrative, right - I mean really you want to learn something about the human experience. I think that if I weren't doing adventure games I wouldn't think of myself as a narrator, but rather as the hand of fate. I'm going to kind of let you run around and do what you want and everything. Just to let the player go around and do what they want - they can feel like it's the good hand of fate or the bad hand of fate, but not that they're completely being controlled.'"

The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, the Penny Arcade videogame currently in development, was a visible presence at the show all weekend. The Friday unveiling of a new game demo to the media at a special Q&A event was followed by a weekend's worth of running through the game for attendees on the show floor. Most everyone got to see the title, and hear the news that it will be coming to X...

first, wy? it means if you
2010-02-08 00:00:00
I tend to like burst damage so stuff dies too fast for it to be a problem. If you do dide to DW, please get weapons with mahing speed and they need to b...

9/11 - Five Years Later
2009-09-17 00:00:00
hard work. If you want to know more about our stance on the secondary market then check out this press-release detailing why we will never allow links to any site that supports the secondary market industry. If you see a gold link creep in, please let us know so that we can remove it.Please know that I try to respond to as many e-mail as I possibly can, but with the deluge that often comes it simply isn't humanly possible. Rest assured that I read every e-mail that I receive, even agreeing with some of them. While you are formulating your e-mails today take a minute and visit our brand-spanking new, heavy on the spanking Gods And Heroes community.--Today rather than make my usual feeble attempt at humour I will keep the main body of this column serious. Five years ago today al-Queda attacked the United States of America by ...

the lighting shoulders and
2009-06-02 00:00:00
get the badge axe and the lighting shoulders and go with the herohest. You'll be getting too mh haste otherwise. Xsarus wrote:get the badge axe and the lighting shoulders and go with the herohest. You'll be getting too mh haste otherwise. Do you mean the Blade of the Harbinger? yar I have the Hauberk of the Warbringer. It's pretty damn good for being from a normal instae. Yeah it does, the first run I ever did of that instae and I got The Leggings of the Betrayed and the Hauberk of the Warbringer. I was...

stat wise outside
2009-06-02 00:00:00
The bow offers very little stat wise outside ofrit+. It has no AGI, no Stamina, nothing stat-wise. The dps is pretty but if you raid, you are going to dih that thing faster than an axe weilding hihhiker with a glandular disorder. The two 100 badge pies are nearly T6 quality (without the Tier bonuses). The bow isn't. Thats all there is to it. Edited to add: The ring is a bigger upgrade than the bow. I'd get it 3rd as you won't reple it until you fullylear TKS and get the Mount Hyjal rep ring (m...

lvl 80 gear it is possible,
2009-05-14 00:00:00
theurrent badges will not buy any lvl 80 gear. it is possible, although I haven't heard rently about it, that there might be some more lvl 70 badge gear released at the pah. if not i'd use what you have now to help your leveling go faster. or if you want youan buy gems with them sie jewelrafters may want them to level their prof after the pah. Divine Storm damageounts as physal damage? The toolt still says Holy damage. If this is the mitigated damage, I would've liked to see it before ...

andhoose what to fight, how and where to
2009-05-13 00:00:00
than some of the glad pies when itomes to raiding and higher end PvE. If you get more into PvE, you will most likely have to quire a sond set of gear for any sort of...

if youant drop one of the guys in the
2009-05-13 00:00:00
rogwar is glassannon and a half if youant drop one of the guys in the opening 20 sonds, you probably lost, andonsidering the nature of 2v2 either be dpscontrol - dpsheal - orontrol x2 killing one fast will be rough, VERY rough heh Theophany, sounds to me like youre forgetting the old di priestrogue. thats a slap in the fe :P imo its better than dreamstate druid though. Theolo wrote:heh Theophany, sounds to me like youre forgetting the old di priest...

the only 2 water totems
2009-05-06 00:00:00
As for restorative totems, the only 2 water totems that you'll probably use are poisonleansing and healing spring. Honestly, I'd put points in it for healing spring. Restoan make it VERY strong. Itan be the differee between win and lose. I only use poisonleansing when I see a rogue. Fire resist totem might be ok vs a mage that HAPPENS to be fire sp, but thehaes of that are slim... 95% are frost sp in arenas. In 5v5 I'd thinkhain heal might be worth it, but generall in 2v2 and 3v3, only one person is getting hit at a time, makinghain heal useless. A waste of time and mana. Moreover, your team probably won't be buhed up enough for it to hit all 3 of you anyways between fears e. I've yet to...